Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When worried stockholders of American Motors Corp. met in Detroit last week, they were prepared for bad news about the company, which in fiscal 1956 lost $19.7 million. They were not disappointed. In the first quarter of its fiscal 1957 (October through December), the three-year-old merged hybrid (Nash-Kelvinator-Hudson) piled up a loss of $2,994,613 v. a profit of $2,512,568 in the same period the year before...
...quoted from Laura Spelman Rockefeller, "Children are my precious jewels -loaned me for a season to be handed back when the call comes." Even here in this small town the good works of the Rockefeller bounty is felt. Unaware, perhaps, farmers in this area are beginning to use hybrid corn seed made possible by research and development grants from the Rockefeller Foundation. We are grateful to you for such an excellent portrayal of a gracious and dedicated gentleman...
Injected Signals. "The logical extension of electroencephalographic research," said Schafer, "may result in the formation of another hybrid science, biocontrol. The biophysicist has measured and recorded the electrical activity of the central nervous system, and shown that neural [nerve] currents control many of our mental and muscular activities. The electronic-control scientist has taught us that minute electrical signals, properly amplified, may be used for the control of airplanes, guided missiles and machine tools...
...between aircraft-guidance systems, reached a new phase last week. The Air Coordinating Committee announced a compromise plan that looks like a desperate attempt to offend no one. The plan recommends that both guidance systems, VOR (Very High Frequency Omnirange) and TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation) be "combined" under the hybrid name of VORTAC...
...half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from Maine to Minnesota are now being transformed into marketable products. On the horizon: hybrid trees that will reach marketable age faster-and yield much more lumber...